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Stars come out for summer film festival under open sky

22.07.09

Penelope Cruz, John Hurt and Freida Pinto are to take part in an all-star series of talks and screenings at Somerset House... more

Arts festival will bring Martin Scorsese to London

20.05.09

London is to host a giant philanthropic arts festival with Martin Scorsese, Youssou N’Dour and African Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka.... more

The Stephen Frears factor

15.05.09

Film director Stephen Frears has spent his career commenting on the workings of society. So despite the crash, the crunch and the cuts, he sees a beginning in the end of neo-capitalism...... more

Dangerous liaison for Michelle Pfeiffer in Cheri

07.05.09

At 50, Michelle Pfeiffer seems more beautiful than ever and an actress with a few more strings to her bow in Cheri.... more

Cheri needs more depth

11.02.09

If looks could kill, Stephen Frears and Christopher Hampton's adaptation of Colette’s Cheri might cause casualties.... more

Film

08.10.08

Given the financial hurricane that devasted the City last month, that 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for British film and our leading directors and actors ... more

ICA hosts The Booker at the Movies screenings

06.06.08

The Booker at the Movies will screen four of the 39 films so far adapted from novels that won or were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.... more

The making of a great Othello

07.12.07

Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Moor in the Donmar Warehouse’s production has been hailed as one of the best ever. Experiencing a ‘memorable jealousy’ gave him the necessary inspiration.... more

A London street that's full of Eastern promise

15.11.07

Brick Lane is quietly effective, acted with resource and directed with the kind of patient skill it needs.... more

Free movies on Thursdays

08.11.07

To celebrate 25 years of Film4, there is a four-week free film season at the Prince Charles Cinema, with screenings including Last King of Scotland and The Motorcycle Diaries.... more

Comical explorers desperately seeking Djibouti

25.09.07

The duo in World in One City want to meet someone from all 192 UN-recognised countries. It's not so much a comedy show, more an exercise in listmaking anal retentiveness.... more

Abortion pic tops Cannes prizes

29.05.07

Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days won the Palme d'Or at Cannes - but Brit flick Control, about Joy Division's Ian Curtis, got a special mention.... more

Sex and devotion under duress

23.05.07

A small-budget Romanian film, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, has justly been gaining plaudits at Cannes. But Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park is slight by comparison, says Derek Malcolm.... more

Hammer blow

05.04.07

Gary Oldman as the gay, untrustworthy writer Joe Orton and Alfred Molina as longtime lover Kenneth Halliwell give superb performances in Prick Up Your Ears.... more

Dame Helen's fears before Oscar night

23.02.07

Bookmakers William Hill have already started paying out on Dame Helen Mirren winning best actress - but the star is getting more than a little nervous.... more

And next year's winners will be ...

15.02.07

The Brits threaten to clean up at the Oscars - but can our film industry sustain the good form? Charlotte O'Sullivan looks ahead to the movies that could take next year's prizes.... more

Worthy winners however you roll the dice

12.02.07

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More gongs for Mirren's Queen

09.02.07

Dame Helen Mirren added to her clutch of awards for The Queen when she was named best British actress at the London Film Critics' Circle Awards.... more

He took home an Evening Standard film award this week and is up for 10 Oscars, yet Stephen Frears isn't sure why his royal drama is such a hit. Maybe because it's about British dottiness, he says.... more

How 007 made us love him

05.02.07

Bond, Borat and British cinema - our Evening Standard film awards judges reveal how they chose the winners.... more

Bond's toughest mission ... his first acting award

05.02.07

Daniel Craig has been named best actor at the Evening Standard British Film Awards for his performance in Casino Royale.... more

The Queen leading British Oscar charge

23.01.07

Three British stars - Helen Mirren, Judi Dench and Kate Winslet - will battle it out for best actress at this year's Oscars.... more

Hollywood's new royalty

16.01.07

After the Golden Globe successes and record growth in the British film industry, we name our top 50 major players.... more

Mirren reigns supreme

08.01.07

The Queen's Helen Mirren has been crowned best actress by the New York Film Critics Circle, while Forest Whitaker was named best actor.... more

Will the Brits get the gongs?

21.12.06

British actors have put in some prizewinnning performances this year. They'll get Oscar nominations, just don't expect them all to win.... more

The man who rewrites history

27.10.06

Peter Morgan is Britain's hottest television, film and stage writer. His brilliance is in imagining the private conversations of the power players. Just don't call it docudrama, he says.... more

Majestic Mirren's crowning glory

14.09.06

Dame Helen Mirren's performance as the beleaguered monarch in the much-talked-about The Queen is well worth an Oscar - and the script really dazzles too.... more

This doesn't put a royal foot wrong

01.09.06

No one really knows how the Royals reacted when Princess Diana died in that crash. But, in The Queen, Stephen Frears and Peter Morgan have made an educated and emotionally entertaining guess.... more

My Queen is no betrayal

31.08.06

Helen Mirren may be snubbed by the royals for playing The Queen, but the star says Stephen Frears's acclaimed film is no betrayal of the monarch.... more

Jack's black and blue all over

11.08.06

Jack Black stars as a monk-turned-wrestler in Nacho Libre, a Mexican-based, English-speaking comedy. If you liked his work in High Fidelity and School of Rock, you should enjoy this well enough.... more